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Justin Kilcullen, Director, Trócaire & Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern

Justin Kilcullen, Trocaire
 

Justin Kilcullen is Director of the Irish development agency, Trócaire (http://trocaire.org), since 1993 and the President of CONCORD (the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development) since June 2006

He has worked in Tanzania, Cambodia and Thailand as an architect with the government and with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Mr. Kilcullen has also served on the Advisory Board to the Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs on development policy. Justin Kilcullen is regularly requested to speak at international conferences and to official bodies on issues of development and human rights.
 

Tom Arnold, Concern

Tom Arnold was appointed Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide, Ireland’s largest humanitarian organisation, in 2001. He was previously Assistant Secretary General with the Irish Department of Agriculture and Food, and was Senior Economist with ACOT, the Farm Advisory Service.
At an earlier stage of his career, he worked for the European Commission on Agricultural Policy and on development programmes, representing the Commission for three years in the Ivory Coast and Malawi.

He was Chairman of the OECD’s Committee of Agriculture (1993 – 1998).

In 2003, he was appointed to the UN Millennium Projects Hunger Task Force, established by Kofi Annan to devise a strategy to halve world hunger by 2015.

He is currently a member of the Irish Hunger Task Force, charged with proposing a strategy through which Ireland can make a distinctive contribution towards ending world hunger.

He is a member of the International Food Policy Research Institute’s (IFPRI) 2020 Advisory Council, and the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund’s (CERF) Advisory Group.

At European level, he is Chairman of the European Food Security Group (EFSG), a network of 40 European NGOs engaged in food security work, and is Vice-Chair of the Trans Atlantic Food Aid Dialogue (TAFAD) – an alliance of American, European and Canadian NGOs working on the reform of international food aid. He was recently appointed to the Trust governing the Irish Times, Ireland’s leading newspaper, and to the Irish Government’s Commission on Taxation. Tom Arnold is a graduate in Agricultural Economics from University College Dublin and has Masters Degrees from the Catholic University of Louvain and Trinity College Dublin.